Fitting shoe-uppers



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN OOVLES, OF ROCHESTER, NEV YORK.

FITTING SHOE-UPPERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 44,163, dated September13, 1864.

.To all whom it may concern.,-

Beit known that I, J oHN UowLEs, of the city of Rochester, county ofMonroe, and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Mode ofFitting Shoe-Uppers5 and I do hereby declare that the following is afull and exact description thereof, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon,and in which- Figure l is an external view of a ballnoral upper, towhich my invention is applied; Fig. 2, a plan view of a closed balmoralupper having the inside turned out; Fig. 3, a view in perspective of theoutside of a finished balmoral upper, and Fig.4 a view of the frontlining where cemented together.

My invention consists in forming the finished upper by stitching orsewing -with a sewing-machine the vamp to the quarter in one continuousseam of any desired curvature, and in uniting the front parts of thelining to each other with cement.

To enable others skilled in the art to use my invention, I will proceedto describe it.

The quarters or back of the upper being prepared in the usual way, or asshown in the drawings, where A represents the quarter united at the backand covered with the stay a., stitched on its edges, B the binding, Dthe lining, and C the rows of eyelets for the lacing', are in conditionto receive my invention. The back, with its right side out, is 110Wpricked on or near the edge ot' the right quarter, at the points l and 2of Fig. 1, and the vamp E is so placed thereon as that the edge of theupper shall continue in the desired line on its edge to form the frontof the upper, and this will always be the case when the center of thevamp shall come directly opposite and in line with the opening, wherethe facings that receive the eyelets terminate,

as at bin Figs. 2 and 3. The needle of the sewing-machine is nowinserted through the vamp, the upper, and the lining, near Fig. l, andthe center of the vamp is placed on the prick at Fig. 2, when the seamis sewed from l to 2 on the proper curvature. The upper is now releasedfrom the machine and turned inside out, the other side of the vamp isfitted properly to its side of the back of the upper, and the needleagain inserted in the last stitch previously made, and the seamcontinued until the vamp is securely sewed down onto the back. Thepoints where the lining joins from the top of the vamp to the toe ot'the upper are united with cement, as shown at c c in Fig. 4,instead ofbeing sewed as formerly, and when the upper is lasted the lining becomessmooth and does not pucker or wrinkle when the shoe is nished. By thisInode of uniting the Vamps, quarters, and linings of uppers,

more especially in those shoes known as balmorals,7 I have eected animportant economy in the labor of preparing the same, while at the sametime I produce a more perfect fabric.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,is-

l. The combination of the Vamps, quarters, and lining` when sewed andcemented substantially in the manner and for the purpose set forth.

2. In combination with vamps and quarters, united as described, thejoining the fronts ot' the lining and causing them to cohere Withcement, as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name.

JOHN COVLES.

In presence of- JNo. C. OHUMAsERo, JESSE SHEPHERD.

